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Alcoholic drinks from Georgia, including Kakheti and Imereti
Qvevri wine (Georgian buried-amphora wine)ქვევრი
Qvevri wine is Georgian wine fermented and aged in large egg-shaped clay jars buried in the ground. The juice goes in with its skins, seeds and often stems (the chacha), ferments open for 10 to 20 days while the cap is pushed down, and is then sealed for months. The long skin contact gives even white qvevri wines several times the phenols of whites made the European way.
Fully documentedAlcoholic drinks5.3 months – 6.7 monthsFamily: Red wine
Recipe
No fixed amounts recordedNo fixed recipe. The qvevri is filled to about 80–85 % with juice and chacha; the share of chacha depends on the regional style.
Grape juice with its chacha (skins, seeds and stalks)
In the family cellars surveyed, neither commercial cultures nor sulphur dioxide were used[vigentini2016]
Starter
spontaneous
Total time across the recorded steps: 5.3 months – 6.7 months
Start
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What changes:Grapes are trodden and the juice and skins run into the buried jar
Step 1 of 4
Tread the grapes and run them into the qvevri
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Yeasts
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Grapes are crushed by treading in the wooden press. Output: juice with skins, seeds and stalks.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Qvevri wine is Georgian wine fermented and aged in large egg-shaped clay jars buried in the ground. The juice goes in with its skins, seeds and often stems (the chacha), ferments open for 10 to 20 days while the cap is pushed down, and is then sealed for months. The long skin contact gives even white qvevri wines several times the phenols of whites made the European way. Made in 4 steps over 5.3 months – 6.7 months. The longest step, seal and mature on the chacha, takes 5–6 months (Ieri F 2021) and runs at 12–14 °C (Kostecka-Gugała A 2026). Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the most common yeast in Georgian wines does most of the fermenting.
The wine ferments and ages in a clay jar buried to its neck, not in a tank or barrel, and stays on its skins, seeds and often stems for months. That makes white qvevri wine closer to a red wine in tannin and colour.
Wine faults are the main risk. In a 2019 tasting of 575 small-producer wines in Georgia, 30 % were rejected, mostly for mice flavour, oxidation and high volatile acidity. Qvevri wines had fewer microbial faults than other wines, but a musty or mouldy fault was far commoner in them (19 % against 1 %), which the authors link to how hard qvevri are to sanitise. Cellars sometimes fumigate an empty qvevri with sulphur dioxide to disinfect it before filling. A study of 72 qvevri wines found that spontaneous malolactic fermentation can leave more histamine in the wine than a fermentation started with a commercial Oenococcus oeni culture.
Hazards the sources name: Histamine, formed by lactic acid bacteria during spontaneous malolactic fermentation in some qvevri wines (abstract only); Spoilage microbes that cause wine faults (acetic acid bacteria and volatile acidity, Brettanomyces, mouldy or musty taint) when qvevri are not well sanitised.
Egg-shaped clay vessels found at the Shulaveri sites near Tbilisi gave chemical evidence of grapes dating to 6000–5800 BC, according to a 2022 Georgian review. Under the Soviet system Georgian winemaking turned to mass production and lost some of the traditional values of qvevri winemaking. After independence in the early 1990s Georgia adopted protected designations of origin and the Law on Vine and Wine (1998). Qvevri winemaking was given Georgian national intangible heritage status and inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2013.